Why Google Became a Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey

They could have figured out a way to spread some of the cost of the phone over monthly payments, so that buying a device didn’t seem so expensive or budget-busting. They could have made phones designed to work on pay-as-you-go networks like Metro PCS and Cricket. A Google equivalent of Apple’s Genius bars, for its Nexus Ones, could have taught people why the device was cool and how to make it even better.